Samsung knows a good thing when it sees it. The company struck gold with its TV commercials mocking iPhone users late last year. The commercials depicted rabid Apple fans that wait in long lines to snap up the latest iteration of the iPhone.

And that, in a nutshell is Androids advantage and exactly why it outsells the iPhone by a factor of 4 to 1. You can get what you want, qwerty kb, removable battery, large screen, HUGE screen, low end, high end and everything in between.

Standby? I haven't seen the SGIII, but just about every Android phone I come in contact has crappy standby. At my company most people have iPhones, while some opted for Android phones. The Android always need to be charged more often. My co-corker finally gabe up and just got an iPhone, as there were too many times he'd pick his phone up and fund it dead. I can go several days without charging my 4S.

You are absolutely right... The Benefit of Android is flexiblity, the negative is updates, compatiblity with some apps. Another problem is perception. 2.x sucked so bad that alot of people were turned off. Fault Google for that.

But now, today the benefits far outweigh the negatives... At least to most people.

We can probably gauge by your incredible spelling ability the overall intelligence of your co-workers, and let me guess -- you're the 'geek' of the office.. I sure hope you don't do much correspondence at work.

Battery life specs are something you can't really fudge too far, as the FCC checks them in the same way the EPA checks auto mileage ratings. Other Androids aside, a simple comparison between the iP5 and the GS3 shows the Samsung handset to have far superior battery life in practically every usage scenario.

A year or two ago, before lte-enabled radio chips were brought down to a smaller silicon process (cheaper, more efficient), you would be totally right -- exactly the reason why Apple refused to put 4g in the iP 4S, as it'd be plagued by poor battery life like all the more modern flagship androids of the time. Though, that sure didn't stop Apple from putting a '4G' status icon when in a 3G HSPA+ network (they thought it'd be fine.. hey, it's 'almost' as fast).

Ur an idiot, LTE is not 4g specifications either and real world specs for HSPA+ r not far from LTE NOT EVEN Considerin the (then) trade offs, and worst of all u know this but ur still out and about spewin contrived crap being a biased moron. And Besides all that, it was rely becuz of AT&T dat dat was done.

"LTE as specified in the 3GPP Release 8 and 9 document series does not satisfy the technical requirements the 3GPP consortium has adopted for its new standard generation, and which were originally set forth by the ITU-R organization in its IMT-Advanced specification. However due to marketing pressures and the significant advancements that WIMAX, HSPA+ and LTE bring to the original 3G technologies, ITU later decided that LTE together with the aforementioned technologies can be called 4G technologies "

On top of this apple even took off the 4G name from their new iPads bcuz of this and now call it "cellular". blame ur shitty American tele companies for the 3G/4g "conundrum", if u wil, not apple - and plz find sumthin better to do or get a life.

And it's Apple laughing all the way to the bank...i.e. if Android is used, Apple and Microsft get over $75.00 per phone, and that doesn't even take into account hardware patent payments, and recent legal decisions in favor of Apple. Apple's winning where it counts, and that's in the pocket book.

I hate Apple, but the amount of stupid I just read is mind boggling. Notifications I can give you, and perhaps widgets and social networking integration (IDK if Apple implements something similar TBH), but the rest aren't stolen from Android.

OTA updates have been around since before iOS and Android were even ideas.

Free turn-by-turn nav? Turn-by-turn has been around since before phones got it. So you're basically saying they stole the free part, which is ridiculous no matter how you think about it.

Social networking integration couldn't have been stolen from Android since they had another phone that integrated with Facebook before it, it had a Facebook button on the phone itself.

Multitasking? They had that on comps for decades, no way that could have been stolen from Android.

Opening apps from lock-screen? I'd give it a bit more credit if it weren't for the fact it didn't originate on Android. Seems like it was on jailbroken iPhones before Android.

Custom wallpapers? Haven't had this since at least Windows 98 or anything.

Panoramic photos? Again, are you serious? Phones had this before Android and the concept wasn't unique or original in any way even when the first phone got it.

If you're going to bitch about stolen stuff at least make sure it makes sense first, my god.

I agree with you there. As far as a money making machine Apple is definteley on top. Apple makes way more money. If you are looking at hte company Apple is winning. As consumers, Android gives you more features and better phones. As a consumer Android users win.

Just because you keep posting it does not make it true. Apple does not get anything from android. They are trying to get money from the courts, but are not getting anything at the moment. MS gets anywhere from $0 to $15 per device, depending on how much the manufacturer of the device settled for.